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tramni1980 06-14-2010 10:08 AM
Toshiba Tecra S11-11H PTSE3E-00W00UG3 on Slackware-13.1?
 
Hello!
I am considering to buy the laptop Toshiba Tecra S11-11H PTSE3E-00W00UG3.
Here are its specifications:

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Notebook specifications

Toshiba Tecra S11-11H
:: Processor
Intel Core i5 520M 2.4 GHz
:: Mainboard
Intel HM55
:: Memory
4096 MB, DDR3 (2x2048MB)
:: Graphics adapter
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 2100M - 512 MB, Core: 535/1230 MHz, Memory: 790 MHz, DDR3, 188.22
:: Display
15.6 inch 16:9, 1600x900 pixel, LED backlighting, glossy: no
:: Harddisk
Hitachi HTS545050B9A300, 500GB 5400rpm
:: Soundcard
Realtek HD Audio
:: Connections
1 Express Card 54mm, 4 USB, 1 VGA, 1 DisplayPort, 1 Kensington Lock, 1 Serial Port, 1 eSata, 1 Docking Station Port, Audio Connections: headphones, microphone, Card Reader: Ricoh 5-in-1 card reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro/xD), fingerprint reader, Smartcard reader
:: Networking
Intel(R) 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection (10MBit), Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (bgn), 2.0 Bluetooth
:: Optical drive
Matshita DVD-RAM UJ890AS
:: Size
height x width x depth (in mm): 37.6 x 374 x 350.5
:: Weight
2.64 kg Power Supply: 0.48 kg
:: Battery
55 Wh Lithium-Ion, 4860mAh, 10.8V
:: Price
1200 Euro
:: Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64bit
:: Additional features
Webcam: HD Webcam 1280x800, Toshiba Bulletin Board, TosReelTime
I need your opinion on whether it will successfully run in Linux.

Regards,

Martin

darrin2520 06-14-2010 11:21 AM
Hi Martin.

Most everything there looks pretty standard. Most of the times, it is the small things on the laptops that either don't work or take all the time to get set up right, ie panel keys, etc.

The last time I played with the 5-1 card, it was not super easy to set up to be honest. That may take a little bit of work to get working exactly right.

The biggest concern I would have with any laptop is the wireless card. I have had varying degrees of success with ndiswrapper, but it is always better when you can get a native driver. For a fun read about this particular card, you can go to this 14-page thread. It is for Ubuntu (isn't everything now days), but it does not appear that this particular wireless card is trivial to setup.

tramni1980 06-14-2010 12:53 PM
Thanks for your reply.
I wonder about the graphics card, as nvidia quadro 2100m does not appear in the list of drivers in :
the nvidia driver download page
There are only 5100M and 3100M

ponce 06-14-2010 01:10 PM
I can see a NVS 2100M here: it seems to be it.

tramni1980 06-14-2010 01:24 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ponce (Post 4003352)
I can see a NVS 2100M here: it seems to be it.
Maybe this is the driver that will support it?
In the "Supported products" section they mention

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Quadro NVS series:
NVS 440, NVS 450, NVS 420, NVS 290, NVS 280, NVS 285, NVS 210, NVS 295

ponce 06-14-2010 02:05 PM
reading here yes, looks like it's supported also by that driver.

tramni1980 06-30-2010 10:42 AM
Thank you all for your replies.
A little update.

I bought the notebook and installed Slackware64-13.1 on it after relentlessly banishing the Windows 7 Professional edition that it came with :). To my surprise everything really worked out of the box, even the wireless card and the battery. Maybe the only thing that misses is the Toshiba software concerning the fingerprint detection and face recognition, but I do not need them.
As I said, everything at least seems to work, nevertheless there are some disturbing messages that come out at booting. Here is an excerpt of the output of dmesg:
Code:
pci 0000:01:00.0: Boot video device
PCI: CLS 64 bytes, default 64
Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
Freeing initrd memory: 2570k freed
PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
Placing 64MB software IO TLB between ffff880005ddc000 - ffff880009ddc000
software IO TLB at phys 0x5ddc000 - 0x9ddc000
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7c set to 0x1
alg: No test for __aes-aesni (__driver-aes-aesni)
alg: No test for __ecb-aes-aesni (__driver-ecb-aes-aesni)
alg: No test for __cbc-aes-aesni (__driver-cbc-aes-aesni)
modprobe[457]: segfault at 7fff74b36038 ip 00007f3e1cb86fc2 sp 00007fff74a8e200 error 4 in ld-2.11.1.so[7f3e1cb84000+20000]
modprobe[459]: segfault at 7fff9b1f9038 ip 00007f799ee0bfc2 sp 00007fff9b13bc50 error 4 in ld-2.11.1.so[7f799ee09000+20000]
modprobe[462]: segfault at 7fff95f21038 ip 00007f3514189fc2 sp 00007fff95e0b9b0 error 4 in ld-2.11.1.so[7f3514187000+20000]
alg: skcipher: Failed to load transform for ecb-aes-aesni: -2
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
type=2000 audit(1278007977.478:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
ROMFS MTD (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc.
msgmni has been set to 7629
alg: No test for cipher_null (cipher_null-generic)
alg: No test for ecb(cipher_null) (ecb-cipher_null)
alg: No test for digest_null (digest_null-generic)
alg: No test for compress_null (compress_null-generic)
alg: No test for fcrypt (fcrypt-generic)
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
async_tx: api initialized (async)
...........................
......................
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff880137826b40), AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff880137826b60), AE_NOT_FOUND
ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTS545032B9A300, PB3OC64G, max UDMA/133
ata1.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff880137826b40), AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff880137826b60), AE_NOT_FOUND
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access    ATA      Hitachi HTS54503 PB3O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte logical blocks: (320 GB/298 GiB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
 sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF1] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT1._SDD] (Node ffff880137826c20), AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF1] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT1._GTF] (Node ffff880137826c40), AE_NOT_FOUND
ata2.00: ATAPI: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ890AS, 1.00, max UDMA/100, ATAPI AN
ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF1] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT1._SDD] (Node ffff880137826c20), AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF1] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT1._GTF] (Node ffff880137826c40), AE_NOT_FOUND
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ890AS  1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Here is also an excerpt of /var/log/syslog:
Code:
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 993600
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        Console: colour dummy device 80x25
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        Fast TSC calibration using PIT
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        Detected 2394.052 MHz processor.
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        udevd[1671]        bind failed: Address already in use
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        udevd[1671]        error binding control socket, seems udevd is already running
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        #2
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        #3
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI: Executed 1 blocks of module-level executable AML code
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        raid6: int64x1  2355 MB/s
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        raid6: int64x2  3035 MB/s
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        raid6: int64x4  2046 MB/s
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        raid6: int64x8  1980 MB/s
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        raid6: sse2x1    6511 MB/s
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        raid6: sse2x2    7589 MB/s
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        raid6: sse2x4    8335 MB/s
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        raid6: using algorithm sse2x4 (8335 MB/s)
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        pci 0000:01:00.0: no compatible bridge window for [mem 0xfff80000-0xffffffff pref]
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        alg: skcipher: Failed to load transform for ecb-aes-aesni: -2
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        floppy0: no floppy controllers found
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff880137826b40), AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff880137826b60), AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff880137826b40), AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff880137826b60), AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF1] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT1._SDD] (Node ffff880137826c20), AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF1] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT1._GTF] (Node ffff880137826c40), AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF1] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT1._SDD] (Node ffff880137826c20), AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF1] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT1._GTF] (Node ffff880137826c40), AE_NOT_FOUND
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        registered taskstats version 1
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI: SSDT 00000000bf7f8918 0041D (v01  PmRef  Cpu0Ist 00003000 INTL 20061109)
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI: SSDT 00000000bf7f6018 008B2 (v01  PmRef  Cpu0Cst 00003001 INTL 20061109)
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI: SSDT 00000000bf7f7a98 00303 (v01  PmRef    ApIst 00003000 INTL 20061109)
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI: SSDT 00000000bf7fac18 00119 (v01  PmRef    ApCst 00003000 INTL 20061109)
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        sdhci-pci 0000:02:00.0: Will use DMA mode even though HW doesn't fully claim to support it.
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  195.36.15  Fri Mar 12 00:29:13 PST 2010
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        kernel        ACPI: Invalid _PSD:coord_type
2010-07-01 18:13:25        marto        syslog        last message repeated 3 times
2010-07-01 18:13:27        marto        named[1781]        max open files (1024) is smaller than max sockets (4096)
2010-07-01 18:13:41        marto        bluetoothd[1863]        Failed to find Bluetooth netlink family
2010-07-01 18:13:41        marto        bluetoothd[1863]        Failed to init netlink plugin
2010-07-01 18:13:57        marto        dhcpcd        dhcpcd not running
2010-07-01 18:13:58        marto        syslog        last message repeated 2 times
2010-07-01 18:14:42        marto        python        hp-systray[2264]: warning: No hp: or hpfax: devices found in any installed CUPS queue. Exiting.
Are the error messages really harmless?

Besides, in the /var/log/messages it says that 4 cpus are brought up. The processor I have is intel core i5 520m. It is a dual core processor, so long as I have investigated. Why are thw two physical cores recognized as 4? Is that because of the hyperthreading?

Thank you very much for your attention.

Regards,

Martin

manwichmakesameal 06-30-2010 12:49 PM
If it does have hyperthreading, that is indeed why it is showing 4 procs.

tramni1980 06-30-2010 11:21 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by manwichmakesameal (Post 4019604)
If it does have hyperthreading, that is indeed why it is showing 4 procs.
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, it does have hyperthreading.
I forgot to mention that the kernel I boot with is the generic 2.6.33.4 kernel that is recommended.


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